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Does Your Browser Need an Expiration Date?
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 1:12 PM EDT
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The study, authored by ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM, examined the Google logs of users browsing the Web between January 2007 and June 2008, and tried to determine which users were using the most recent, patched version of their respective browsers. No personal information was collected, the study's authors said.
What they found was that most users – 52.4 percent – who surfed with Internet Explorer had failed to upgrade to IE7, considered by Microsoft to be the most secure version.
I agree, for totally selfish reasons. As a web developer I am tired of hacking CSS to support IE6. Get an upgrade people!
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{"commentId":2104187,"authorDomain":"fdbryant3"}
I wonder how many people using IE6 are doing so because that is what is installed on their work computer.
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#2 - Wed Jul 2, 2008 1:43 PM EDT{"commentId":2104407,"authorDomain":"shalla"}
That is the exact reason that I won't be able to drop IE6 support in my web coding any time soon. Many companies haven't upgraded or are very, very slow to upgrade browsers on their networks. Add to this that many companies prevent anyone but IT from installing or upgrading software and you have a very slow turnover rate.
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{"commentId":2104715,"authorDomain":"babin"}
As many times as Firefox gets pulled from computers at work and we tell our customer's it's not supported, it continues to be reinstalled - I can't imagine being forced to use IE at home.
And take away my TABS! NO WAY.
More Secure = Microsoft can access your computer to make updates/pull personal data more easily
In my experience Virus software is more annoying than most viruses I've had. And harder to get rid of.
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#3 - Wed Jul 2, 2008 2:36 PM EDT{"commentId":2105342,"authorDomain":"rbrazys"}
I suppose Microsoft could have made it easier on me had they come up with an update for the IE6 rendering engine that supports .png and CSS standards.
Virus software *coughNortonscough* shuts down your network card if it's disabled, you have to do a full uninstall if you are not going to use it.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2105416,"authorDomain":"babin"}
To summarize:
CSS rocks
"F" Virus software (I'm convinced they write half the viruses anyway)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":2105233,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
Well I can tell you one thing.. many of them it is due to the radical changes microsoft decided to make to their interface.
Switch from 6 to 7 and all of a sudden you have to relearn things..they make no easy transition// I know the menu is just shifted but the few people I have changed over just get annoyed and want to go back.
much like vista..
people don't like learning new things.. they just want them to work and maybe make them look better.
But learning where menus are, or where the hell you click to get a new window isnt fun, it is fusterating and makes people feel stupid.
company's really don't like change.. all of a sudden there is a drop in productivity. Microsoft is being very stupid.
Give people classic view.. and warn them they are using ie6 and they'll upgrade.
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#4 - Wed Jul 2, 2008 3:38 PM EDT{"commentId":2105268,"authorDomain":"rbrazys"}
I can appreciate that, but don't we have to learn new things all the time?
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{"commentId":2105271,"authorDomain":"babin"}
it is fusterating and makes people feel stupid.
That really bothers me about adults. An unwillingness or inability to learn.
We don't promote them where I work, we try to weed them out.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2105310,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
Sure but it is also crazy to make people learn new things for no really good reason.
it's like changign the spelling of words year after year.. it just makes no scene to do it.
and I take it back.. you can go to classic view.. I had seen something about that before and couldn't find what they were talking about.. well on my ie7.. classic view is turned on by selecting "menu bar" not "classic view" as this tut from Microsoft shows. talk about a productivity killer.. they cant even give me correct instructions.
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{"commentId":2105347,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}
At least FireFox is smart enough to alert that there's an upgrade available.
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